# Clarification of SDMB rule against calls to action **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-of-sdmb-rule-against-calls-to-action/967571 "2022-07-07T18:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 50
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-of-sdmb-rule-against-calls-to-action/967571/50 "2022-07-10T23:19:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > That may have cost me my mod job then when I ignored such. Careful now–it almost sounds like you’re advocating ignoring rules when it’s immoral to follow them! There’s an idea I’ve written about before–[the Victor’s Distinction](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-hear-a-republicans-retort-to-betos-take-a-knee-speech/820106/113)–where folks approve of advocacy of justice when the fight’s over, but hesitate to approve of current, un-won fights for justice. I worry that the board will fall into that error, approving of past civil disobedience but not approving of current CD. > [@What\_Exit](#): > > I think where the law is very murky, we’ll lean towards liberties. Take, then, Rosa Parks’s actions. Parks trained at the [Highlander Folk School](https://rosaparksbiography.org/bio/highlander-folk-school-and-the-criminalization-of-organizing/) on how to conduct effective civil disobedience. If the board had been around in 1955 and Parks had posted advocacy for violating racial segregation laws, am I right that this rule would have required her to be sanctioned for her advocacy? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarification-of-sdmb-rule-against-calls-to-action/967571)._